Also known as Grupo de la Esperanza at their headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia, this family of companies was formed in 1995 with the mission of promoting economic diversity and growth in Colombia and other countries of South America by means of infrastructure development, loan and micro-loan programs, business and agricultural technologies education and entrepreneurship consulting. With myriad programs and engineering specialists in dozens of urban and rural planning fields, especially targeting eastern Colombia, and in cooperation with Janissary Corps, Esperanza Group has been bringing social stability and the amenities of 21st-century life to disadvantaged citizens of South America. StreamHeat acquired this forward-thinking group in September of 2009.